Calling the voter-approved measure morally wrong, a Republican-controlled Senate panel voted Feb. 12 to ask voters to reconsider the 2016 measure that is set to hike the minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2020.

The primary election is a long way off, but an Ahwatukee woman said she needs that time as she begins her campaign for justice of the peace in the district that covers Ahwatukee and parts of Tempe and Chandler west of Rural Road.

The Arizona Department of Transportation said it’s ramping up construction activity along the entire 22-mile stretch of the South Mountain Freeway this year, and plans to blast a path through South Mountain sometime this summer.

After Dr. Michelle May and her husband, Owen, decided to re-carpet their Ahwatukee home earlier this month, the necessity of moving furnishings from six rooms provided unexpected inspiration for May’s Mindful Eating Newsletter on her website, AmIHungry.com.

A Tempe legislator who represents Ahwatukee tangled with a Chandler lawmaker last week before a House panel voted – but just barely – to give feminine hygiene products and diapers the same tax treatment as Lottery tickets, Viagra, tourist magazines, college textbooks and farm animals sold fo…

Panhandling, littering and mailbox thefts dominated the first Tukee Talks session of the new year last week as Phoenix police and other law enforcement-related officials met with about 40 Ahwatukee residents.

Alarmed by the rash of teens who took their life last year in multiple area school districts, including Tempe Union, state Sen. Sean Bowie has introduced a bill requiring suicide-prevention training for all teachers and staff.